Which means this is the first time in a decade that any NFL team's value dropped from the previous year. The question for the rest of us: What can we do to help?

Sorry, not much. Unless you want to buy luxury suites. Or beg your local politicians to use taxpayer money to build lavish new digs for your NFL team.

NFL teams are largely in the commercial real estate business. Beyond their TV deals, teams also split national radio and merchandising money, then have the less-than-Herculean task of selling out eight regular-season home games.

Breathe easy: It will take more than this recession for any NFL owner's private jet to go wheels-up without enough Grey Poupon onboard.

On tap: CBS' Lesley Visser becomes the first woman to be a color analyst on an NFL game as she subs on Miami TV Thursday for Bob Griese— who has a conflict — in the fourth quarter of the Miami Dolphins-New Orleans Saints game.

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